Bill introduced to ban Howard Zinn books from Arkansas schools

There are books in Arkansas schools? I thought they used the Bible.

Wikipedia page:

Zinn stated that he would like to be remembered "for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality," and for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it."

Shameful.

And pathetic. And futile.

There's only one ideal response to such maneuvers, demonstrated below. (Of course, it's a challenge that this is a reasonably populous state with 347 public high schools to cover. That might take some crowdsourcing, to say the least...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel)#Attempted_censorsh...

In 2014, a High School Principal in Pensacola, Florida, Michael Roberts, pulled Little Brother from his school's summer reading list because the book is "about questioning authority" and portrays questioning authority "as a positive thing." Roberts also described Cory Doctorow, a Canadian author living in England, as "an outsider to the George W. Bush administration."
In response, Doctorow had his publisher send a free copy of the book directly to every 9th and 10th grade student at the school.

Or I'm envisioning a book pusher around the corner and down the alley, with teens eager to get their hands on the contraband.

Given all of the conflicts of interest of the Trump crowd it wouldn't surprise me to discover that the Arkansas rep gets kickbacks from the publisher of the book. as >7 2wonderY: noted - one of the fastest ways to get people to read something is to tell them they are not allowed to do so....most of you are probably too old to remember the days when U.S. officials made a point of going after books like The Tropic of Cancer - and the surge in book sales that followed. :-)

>8 alco261: Given the average profit levels in the book industry, I think "kickbacks" on old Howard Zinn titles pretty unlikely.

>8 alco261: Too Old or Too Young? ;)

>10 gilroy: ah me, just another case of rented fingers I guess. :-)